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Icy Panopticon (Koha Ditore)

In his regular column, Enver Robelli anticipates a difficult year ahead which, he says, will be marked with standstill, impoverishment and desperation of the people of Kosovo. The only cure for this will be emergence of new political alternatives and a comprehensive mobilization of the population against the alliance of crime and evil which Robelli claims is composed of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and its “sub-branch”, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).

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Jahjaga's office violating right to official use of Serbian (Tanjug)

GRACANICA - The office of Kosovo President Atifete Jajhaga is continuing to violate the guaranteed rights of the Serb community to official use of its mother tongue, the Association of Journalists of Kosovo-Metohija (DNKiM) and the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) warned on Monday. Despite numerous protests, the office of the Kosovo president is continuing to send Albanian-language press releases to Serb media and publish Albanised translations of information on its official website. As a result of the impermissible practice of Kosovo's president and her office, D

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Peaceful protests in northern Kosovo have ended: Kosovo government proposed withdrawal of the Law on Public Enterprises (KoSSev, RTK2, TV Most)

Kosovo government decided on today’s session to withdraw the proposal of the draft amendments to the Law on Public Enterprises from the assembly's agenda. The government also decided that new Law on Trepča should be drafted instead in order that all issues related to the company, which is one of the most important economic subjects in Kosovo, are made clearer.

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Kosovo with only 14.8 percent of female managers (Koha)

According to a study published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Kosovo has only 14.8 percentage participation of women in managerial positions. Better than Kosovo is Albania, with 22 percent of women participation in business. ILO Director Deborah France-Massin, says there is a long way to achieve true gender equality in the workplace, especially when it comes to senior positions. According to her, although women are more likely to manage a business, their options are limited to maintain a high position in any of the biggest companies in the world.

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Kosovo moves to take control of mining giant anger Serbia (Reuters)

Kosovo's government said on Friday it planned to take over the giant Trepca mine complex to save it from bankruptcy and restore it to its former glory, angering the country's former master Serbia. Serbia said the plan, which is expected to be debated by the Kosovo parliament on Monday, would threaten a fragile thaw in relations with its former southern province which it lost control of in 1999. The Trepca mine is a giant, rusting complex of lead, zinc and silver mines that once employed 20,000 people and accounted for the majority of the former Yugoslavia's mineral wealth. It has been held

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Sebastian Kurz to visit Kosovo and FYROM (Blic)

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria, Sebastian Kurz to visit Kosovo and FYROM today. As announced in Vienna, Kurtz will be tonight in Pristina and meet religious leaders and Interior Minister Skender Hyseni and Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga, and he would talk about "jihadism and radicalization in the Western Balkans". Austria for some time is known as the centre of radical Islamists, who through the Western Balkans intend to travel to Syria or Iraq.

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Peaceful protests in Zvečan and Leposavić (TV Most)

Employees of the Trepča mining company in northern Kosovo have staged protests due to draft amendments of the law on public companies adopted by the Kosovo government, which would enable Trepča to become the property of Kosovo. The protests are currently peaceful, and employees are flying Trepča and Serbian flags. TV Most reports that the people of Zvečan/Zveçan and the local self-government are also supporting the protesters.

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Thaci: Kosovo to recognize Montenegrin minority status (RTKLive)

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hashim Thaci told Podgorica TV channel that Kosovo will amend its Constitution and will recognize the status of the Montenegrin national minority.  "It is our will to make constitutional changes, which means that Montenegrin minorities would have a representative in the Assembly, " said Thaci. He said that Kosovo and Montenegro have excellent cooperation, which should be affirmed and that will be a model for other countries in the region.

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Serbia urged to normalize relations with Kosovo (World Bulletin)

British Foreign Secretary Hammond has said Serbia should implement the Brussels agreement on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina. The implementation of the Brussels agreement on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina is important for Serbia’s membership into the European Union, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Thursday. Hammond made the remarks after meeting Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in the Serbian capital Belgrade. "When it comes to the opening of negotiating chapters, implementation of the Brussels agreement on th

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